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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 96 — III. THE COUNCIL OF NICÆA.

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Verum quidem est, quod ob ministrorum Dei defectum in primitiva ecclesia conjugati admittebantur ad sacerdotium, ut ex canonibus apostolorum et Paphnutii responso liquet, et in Concilio Nicæno.—(Respons. Pii. IV. ap. Le Plat, Concil. Trident. Monument. VI. 337.)

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